International Coordination Anthroposophic Psychotherapy

The psychotherapy coordinators have taken on their task until such time as the aim of an international, financially self-sufficient community comprising the members of this professional group with its own representation in the Medical Section has been achieved. Their main task at present is to acquire an overview of and describe the international field of work as a whole in order to be able to represent psychotherapy in the coordination group of the Medical Section.

1. Becoming acquainted with the international field of work comprising anthroposophically-oriented psychotherapy, to describe it and, where possible, create a network.
2. Joint support for fully formulated, international guiding principles, including guidelines, for anthroposophic psychotherapy and the path of schooling as a psychotherapist; the latter in connection with the group for psychotherapy of the School of Spiritual Science.
3. Support for a qualitatively assured, international post-doc advanced training for diagnosis based on an anthroposophical understanding of the human being, psychotherapy and psychiatry.
4. On request: assistance in designing such advanced training. The coordinators are themselves internationally active in several professional groups and training initiatives. 

International structure of the psychotherapy associations:

The IFAPA – International Federation of Anthroposophical Psychotherapy Associations was founded on September 15, 2012, at the Goetheanum in Dornach, Switzerland. It is an umbrella federation currently composed of 17 National Associations of Anthroposophic Psychotherapy around the world. It is a Subsection of the Goetheanum Medical Section, linked to the IKAM- International Coordination of Anthroposophic Medicine, CARE III. It promotes the international formation of postgraduate courses and training of trainers in Anthroposophic Psychotherapy and has worked on the construction and development of a psychotherapeutic community, through meetings, congresses, conferences, courses, articles and publications in many languages and in several countries.